Listed Building: EASTON ON THE HILL VILLAGE HALL (1075782)

School, now village hall. c.1867. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and Collyweston slate roof. T-shape plan. Single storey. Elevation abutting New Road is a 3-window range of 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows. Ashlar quoins and gable parapets. Conical ventilator at ridge. Elevation to left has gable and with large 3-light stone mullion window with plate tracery, cusped-head lights and roundels. Small square tower attached, to left, has square ashlar cupola, with spirelet, clock face on tower with chiming bell in cupola. Partially legible inscribed panel in tower records endowment and building of present school. Elevation to right has gable with similar 3-light window with plate tracery. Lean-to porch to right. Interior retains C19 roof structure. The school was originally endowed by Richard Garford in 1670 and rebuilt on the present site in 1867, to include a National School for girls, as well as boys, at a cost of #1,200. (Whellan, F. and Co.: Directory of Northampt nshire, 1874, p689)

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